Guides, tutorials and opinions on WordPress from the team behind Canvas.
How the block theme template hierarchy really resolves: file order, wp_template database overrides, template parts, areas and why your deployed edits vanish.
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress theme development in 2026: block vs hybrid themes, theme.json v3, wp-scripts, the Interactivity API and a deploy workflow.
What it takes to sell a WordPress theme in 2026: building a theme update server, GPL licensing limits, fail-open licence checks and cutting support load.
A practitioner’s guide to multilingual WordPress: hreflang rules that actually matter, URL structure, and choosing between Polylang, WPML, TranslatePress and
A practitioner’s guide to custom post types, WordPress taxonomies and post meta: decision rules, registration code, relationship patterns and migration steps.
Fix WooCommerce speed properly: measure TTFB vs LCP, clear autoload and Action Scheduler bloat, kill cart fragments and cache product pages without breaking
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress staging, Git workflow and atomic deployment: whitelist .gitignore, Composer plugins, migration runners and safe rollbacks.
A practical wp-cli guide for developers who avoid the terminal: the 12 commands that matter, search-replace gotchas with Elementor JSON, aliases and real
Why wp cron misses scheduled tasks, how to disable wp cron safely, and the WP-CLI crontab setup, retry handling and monitoring we use on client sites.
Elementor vs Bricks vs Gutenberg in 2026: real DOM sizes, lock-in costs and how we pick a WordPress page builder on client projects after shipping hundreds.
Build a custom Gutenberg block that survives updates: block.json, dynamic rendering, deprecations, inner blocks and the Interactivity API, explained properly.
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress database optimization: audit autoloaded options, fix transient bloat, cap revisions and clean orphaned postmeta safely.
